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perl_client_library [2010/11/06 20:35]
jay
perl_client_library [2011/11/10 19:34] (current)
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 SYNOPSIS SYNOPSIS
       use Lib4theFileAPI;       use Lib4theFileAPI;
-      my $api = Lib4theFileAPI->new('https://4thefile.com/api_v1',$username,$apiKey);  +      my $api = Lib4theFileAPI->new(https://4thefile.com/api_v1,$username,$apiKey) 
 +           ││ die "invalid endpoint url or credentials"; 
 +      $api->test_connect or die "failed api connection with error: ".$api->response->status_line;
  
       # list resources for collection ESuVkqZF that have tag "newtag"       # list resources for collection ESuVkqZF that have tag "newtag"
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 INSTANCE METHODS INSTANCE METHODS
-    response();+    response()
         returns an HTTP::Response object resulting from previous API call,         returns an HTTP::Response object resulting from previous API call,
         especially useful if previous call returned undef indicating a         especially useful if previous call returned undef indicating a
         problem         problem
 +
 +    test_connect()
 +        attempts a call to the resource_list API method and returns 1 if connection was successful and valid data
 +        received. returns undef if connection failed (use response->status_line to see the error code returned
 +        from the http connection), or returns 0 if the connection was successful but no valid xml was returned by
 +        the server
  
     resource_list([$query])     resource_list([$query])
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         returns Lib4theFileAPI::Resource object for resource key $rkey or         returns Lib4theFileAPI::Resource object for resource key $rkey or
         undef if none found         undef if none found
 +
 +    resource_attachment_list($rkey)
 +        returns a Lib4thFile::AttachmentList object containing a list of attachments (if any)
 +        for the top-level message in Resource, plus a little meta data (e.g. attach-
 +        ment_count)
  
     collection_resource_list($ckey,[$query])     collection_resource_list($ckey,[$query])
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         $query is an optional hashref containing query parameters as         $query is an optional hashref containing query parameters as
-        outlined in the API documentation. keys include page, per_page, tag+        outlined in the API documentation. keys include page, per_page, tag, cdate
  
     collection($ckey)     collection($ckey)
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         does not delete resource from 4theFile.         does not delete resource from 4theFile.
  
-AUTHOR 
-    created by: jay; Fri Nov 5 16:58:42 2010 
- 
-    last revised: 
  
 </code> </code>
perl_client_library.1289075757.txt.gz · Last modified: 2010/11/06 20:35 by jay